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Listed are the posts for August 2010.

Cheese flavouring – never quite right

Last night we were out again at Bible School and so needed a meal that could be warmed up easily. I pulled out another Whats For Dinner recipe, this time the Cheesy Chicken Bacon and Spring Onion Pasta. Recipe as follows:


Flowers, Flowers, everywhere!

Week 2 of the Icing Course – plastic icing This week we used the buds that we made last week and continued with our plastic icing roses. We were given homework which I finished this morning, hence the blogging about it now. I’m definitely one of the slower ones in the class, but thankfully not [...]


Summer sausage bake – works for winter too

For the past few weeks I have been craving pork sausages and mashed potatoes and it’s taken me a couple of weeks to make it, but finally the day arrived yesterday. Courtesy of Knorr and Spar’s whatsfordinner recipes, I made the Summer Sausage Bake. If you are cooking for 1 this meal will last you [...]


Weekend baking

Just a quick update on the weekend. It was a bit of a cheat Pilsbury weekend, but where’s the fun if you can’t cheat every now and then. It started off with a late Saturday brunch of Pilsbury crumpets (just add water), scrambled egg, bacon and fresh orange juice. And later I baked the Pilsbury [...]


Mushroom Soup

The weekend has gone by in a blur! I’ve decided that there will be no pressure with this blog to do it everyday, but I definitely want to try to give you at least 5 recipes or ideas a week. Friday turned out to be a bit of a chaotic day. I got an order [...]


Mild Cape Curry

There is nothing like a good curry on a cold day especially when it’s been given time to soak in all of the flavours and really capture the senses with the aroma…this was my thinking on Wednesday. Last week I had purchased a few of the Nice ‘n Spicy products and they have been sitting [...]


Adventures in the Kitchen begin (Royal icing roses)

19 August 2010, Thursday Who says things have to start at the beginning of a month or week. I’m going to start this blog series today.  I may not actually make anything today, but it’s a start. Grand plans to bake/cook something every day, but I have no doubt that life will take over and [...]